How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

A laser is usually constructed from two basic elements: a material that provides optical gain through stimulated emission and an optical cavity that partially traps the light. When the total gain in ...

A computational ‘information co-evolution’ framework is developed for the discovery of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis. By integrating cross-level feature ...